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The article has accomplished following tasks
according to present tendency of low-carbon de-
velopment and characteristics of tourism.
Since
United nation framework convention on
Climate change
in 1992 and
Tokyo Protocol
in
1997 started systematic discussion of low-carbon
economy, British President Mr. Tony Blair ini-
tially proposed the conception of “Low-carbon
economy” in resource white book “Our energy
future: establishment of low-carbon economy”
in 2003. Developing low-carbon economy has
caught increasing attention all over the world
(Jia D. C., 2009). It follows a series of new words
and names such as low-carbon, carbon footprint,
low-carbon economy, low-carbon technology,
low-carbon development, low-carbon economic
demonstration district, carbon productivity, carbon
trade market, low-carbon life style, low-carbon
society, low-carbon city, low-carbon world to
create a new low-carbon era globally. As a mod-
ern service sector with the characteristics of low
consumption, little pollution and big volume of
employment demand, tourism has the potential
to be low-carbon sector initially (Bao J. Q. et al.,
2008). In May of 2009, in International commercial
summit of climate change hold in Copenhagen,
World Economy forum submitted the report of
Forward to low-carbon tourism
which proposed
the improvement of low-carbon sustainability of
tourism by all governments, industry's stakehold-
ers and consumers to achieve continuous growth of
tourism and national economic sustainable devel-
opment. It is also a part of long-term scheme for
handling with climate change by tourism branches.
There are a lot of questions such as what is
low-carbon tourism? How to realize effective com-
bination of tourism with low-carbon economy?
Therefore, this chapter tries to make preliminary
exploitation and study on the relevant issues of
“low-carbon economy and tourism”. It will not
only offer theory guidance on sustainable devel-
opment of tourism, and it is also full of pioneer-
ing demonstration and example significance on
practical application development of notion of
green low-carbonization in tourism.
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It introduces overview of low-carbon
economy including the generation of low-
carbon economy, conception explanation,
significance of the Times on development
of low-carbon economy and effective
channel to realize it. Macroscopic under-
standing on relevant theory of low-carbon
economy can play a theoretical guidance
role on effective explanation and realiza-
tion of low-carbon economic notion.
•
It proposes the necessity, possibility and
strengths of low-carbon tourism economy
development in tourism according to its
development situation and industrial ad-
vantage. It also emphasizes pioneering role
and example effect of low-carbon econo-
my development in tourism. Hence it es-
tablishes a solid industrial foundation for
execution of low-carbon economy, and in-
dicate future strategic path for low-carbon
tourism development.
•
It tries to propose an operation framework
system based on the understanding of in-
dustrial advantage of tourism to develop
low-carbon economy with combining in-
dustrial relevance, industrial structure,
and development model of tourism. This
framework includes four systems such as
power system, supportive safeguard sys-
tem, participating main objects system
and realized target system. They will play
important roles on efficient guidance and
standardization of low-carbon tourism de-
velopment. What's more, It suggests exec-
utive scheme on low-carbon tourism devel-
opment based on six elements in tourism.
Finally, Focusing on the Guangdong's stra-
tegic target of “Top province of low-car-
bon economy”, this article selects two rep-
